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''Batillaria zonalis'' is a species of small sandy shore
''Batillaria zonalis''
. accessed 17 October 2009
"Phylogeography of the endangered tideland snail ''Batillaria zonalis'' in the Japanese and Ryukyu Islands"
'' Ecological Research'' * (2004) "The effect of feeding behavior of the gastropods ''Batillaria zonalis'' and '' Cerithideopsilla cingulata'' on their ambient environment"
abstract
snail
A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastro ...
, a marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the family Batillariidae, the horn snails.
Distribution
*Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
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References
Further reading
* Driscoll A. L. (1972). "Structure and function of the alimentary tract of ''Batillaria zonalis'' and '' Cerithidea californica'': style-bearing mesogastropods". ''Veliger'' 14: 375–386. * (2005"Phylogeography of the endangered tideland snail ''Batillaria zonalis'' in the Japanese and Ryukyu Islands"
'' Ecological Research'' * (2004) "The effect of feeding behavior of the gastropods ''Batillaria zonalis'' and '' Cerithideopsilla cingulata'' on their ambient environment"
abstract
External links
Batillariidae Gastropods described in 1792 Marine gastropods {{Batillariidae-stub